Attachment for saddlers  stitching-horses



(No Model.)

0. P. SHAW. ATTAGHMBNT FOR SADDLER'S STITGHING HORSES.

No. 416,865. Patented Dec. ,10, 18891 W12 WESSES I N. PEIE S, Phn! ton. n. c. m

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE;

onARLEs-F. sHAw, OF TAMA, IOWA.

ATTACH M E'NT .FOR SADDLERS" STITCHI NG-HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,865, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed April 1, 1889. Serial No. 305,627. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, CHARLES F. SHAW, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Tama, in the county of Tama and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Saddlers Stitching-Horses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in attachments for saddlers stitchinghorses, having especially for its object to hold a line, whether round or other shape in crosssection, while being sewed or stitched; and to H companying illustrations, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation of asaddlers stitching-horse to which is applied my line holder. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective View of the line-holder, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of. the bottom or lower movable bar.

In the embodiment of my invention I employ a proximate trough-shaped contrivance or holder A for the line or article to be sewed. This holder or contrivance A'has two end pieces or arms a a through apertures a a',in the lower ends of which are passed pivots pivotally connecting them with the outer sides of one member or jaw of the horse B. The lower or bottom barot of the holder A is removable, having splines or projections a a one at each endentering sockets a a in the upper edges of projections a of, standing parallel with the upper or top bar of the holder. This bottom bar, consequently, can be replaced by another bar of different thickness, according to the thickness of the line or article to be held while being sewed.

In the outer side of both arms of the holder,

just in rear of the recesses or, formed by the trough shape of the holder, is a cavity or notch a to provide additional space for the reception and passage therethrough of the greater thickness of line produced by the lapping of the end of the line to permit the sew ing or stitching operationto be begun at theextreme outer end of the line. I A A line either in round or rectangular crossshape and provided with a removable bar,

substantially as set forth.

2. The line-holding contrivance for saddlers stitchinghorses, having a removable bar provided with projections or splines entering sockets in projections of the arms of the holders, substantially as set forth.

3. The line-holder for saddlers stitchinghorses, having a proximate trough shape and a removable bar, and having both arms formed with straight horizontal walls and in rear thereof a semicircular notch or concavity, substantially as specified- 4. The line holding contrivance for saddlers stitching-horses, having the arms pivoted to the latter and of proximately trough shape, the same also having a movable bar provided with projections or splines entering sockets in the arms, both arms having in their .outer sides a notch or cavity, substantially as specified.

presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. SHAW.

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